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Spanish professor and politician. He held a professorship of Physiology in the Medical School of the University of Madrid. He managed to create a worldwide famous school of Physiology. He joined the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) during the dictatorship of General Primo de Rivera (1923-1930), and was elected Deputy in the Parliament representing Las Palmas in 1931, and re-elected in 1936 by the same electoral constituency. In September 1936, when the Spanish Civil War was already started, he was designated Minister of Finance under the government of Francisco Largo Caballero. Negrín stood out for his capacity as leader when reorganizing the "Carabinero" Corps, acquiring foreign supplies, adopting anti-inflationary measures, depositing money to the URSS from the Bank of Spain, etc. In May 1937, the President of the Republic gave her the task of forming a government in which he used different political trends. When the war was over, he left Spain and went to France by plane with some of his ministers. In Spain, he was re-admitted again as professor. During the exile, he was President of the government of the Republic until 1945. Later on, he lived in Great Britain and succesfully returned to his professional tasks until he died in Paris.